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This button was most likely worn by the delegation from Nebraska to the Republican National convention in 1969 as well as at the inauguration of Richard Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew in 1969.

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Armour and Company was founded in Chicago in 1867 by Philip Danforth Armour. It's success made Chicago a central meat packing location for the country, helping the city grow in prominence.

This button is from the "breezy button" collection from Armour Star meat packing company. The buttons were included as a free gift in every package of Armour franks (hot dogs) during the 1950s. The collection had 24 buttons, each with a catchy, "breezy" slogan.

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The phrase "cotton-picking," sometimes spelled as "cotton-picken" or "cotton-pickin'" to signify a dialect, is used as an intensifier to describe something that is unpleasant or troublesome or of little value. The idiom arose in the southern U.S. states sometime during the 1700 among slaves. 

Bugs Bunny may have popularized the phrase "Wait just a cotton-picking minute" and fixed it to our language. Here's an example in Bully for Bugs, 1953: "Just a cotton-pickin' minute, this don't look like the Coachella Valley to me!"

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Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is a holiday observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not an official holiday in most of them. The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In eighteenth-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending hand-written cards.

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“Accidents cause people” is a shortened iteration of the phrase “don’t drink and park – accidents cause people” or “don’t drink and park, accidents in cars cause people.” 

"Don’t drink and park,” derived from the more common “don’t drink and drive,” jokingly suggests that one should avoid intimate behavior while in a parked vehicle. The second part, “accidents cause people” or “accidents in cars cause people,” suggests that accidents are not injuries, per se, but instead unwanted pregnancies. Overall, this phrase is a general warning against having sex while intoxicated. The humor in it is based on the truth that drinking and driving costs lives and the idea that drinking and parking creates lives.

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